Method of securing girder-rails in tracks



A. J. MOXHAM. METHOD OF SECURING GIRDER RAIL S IN TRACKS.

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A. J. MOXHAM. METHOD OF $EOURING GIRDER RAILS IN TRACKS. No. 435,704.

Patented Sept. 2, 1.890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR J. MOXHAM, OF JOIINSTOIVN, PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF SECURING GlRDER-RAILS IN TRACKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 435,704, dated September 2, 1890.

Application filed September 15, 1888. Serial No. 285,645. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR J. MoxHAM, of .Iohnstown, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Means for Securing Girder ltails in Tracks, which invention is fully set forth and illustrated in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide a tie-rod for the rails of streetu-ailroads, ad-

, justable to suit the ordinary irregularities both of paving and trackdaying.

The invention will first be described in detail, and then particularly set forth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 illustratesa broken side elevation of a girderrail, showing a slot in the web of the rail and a sectional end view of a tie-rod flatwise as entered into said slot. Fig. 2 is a view similar to that shown in Fig. 1, except that the tie-rod is shown turned edgewise after entry into the slot in the web of the rail. Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2, showing the rail in cross-section and the tie-rod in side elevation with its hook end engaged in and looked over the edge of the slot in the web of the rail. Fig. is a view similar to that shown in Fig. 3, except that the tie-rod is shown on edge instead of in side elevation. Fig. 5 shows in plan a section of street-bed and track, the bed paved with blocks and the track-rails tied together bya tie-rod, said tie-rod not being yet adjusted. Fig. 6 shows a cross-tie having the track-rails, shown in cross-section, mounted thereon and tied togcther by a tie-rod. Fig. 7 is a view in plan similar to Fig. 5 with the tie-rod adjusted.

In said figuresthe several parts are indicated by letters of reference as follows:

The letter A indicates a girder-rail provided with a vertical web and of well-known head and foot, the forms of head and foot being immaterial to this invention.

B indicates the adjustable tierod, and b its hook ends, formed by slotting out a portion of its depth near said ends.

0 indicates a slot in the web of the rail A, D a cross-tie, and E the street-paving blocks.

From the above description, by reference to the drawings, the invention can now be is secured by means of the slot 0 in the web of the rail and the hook end I) of the tie-rod, it can readily be seen that every tie-rod can be firmly supported in the joint between any two courses of stone, and no necessity can arise for filling in such angular spaces as are indicated in Fig. 5 at c, where, by reason of the non-adjustability of the rods, such spaces become unavoidable. Such spaces have heretofore been filled by a distortion of the last few courses of the paving nearest the rods.

In laying the track the tie-rods B are first entered fiatwise into the slots 0 in the webs of the rails and then turned edgewise, so that their hook ends I) will lock over the bottom edges of said slots, as clearly shown in the drawings. Then by adjusting the tie-rods to lie either at rightangles to the rails or sufiiciently on the diagonal to accommodate the courses of stone'or other paving-blocks everything is brought into proper line and no disturbance occurs to require irregularity of courses to fill up angular spaces between blocks and rods, for no such spaces can exist.

Another importantconsideration is the adj ustability of the rod at a true right angle to the track-rail. If the tie-rods are located at fixed and non-adj ustable points, the series of paving-blocks between two tie-rods, together with intervening joint-spaces, must fill the spaces between the rods. This is done in practice by a selection of paving-blocks but with a tie-rod, as shown herein, the paving can go on without regard to the'tie-rod, and the rod be moved either to or from the lastpaving course. The adjustability being in the rod, and not in the paving, no special selection of paving-blocks is required. It will be observed that the slots in the Webs of the rails Having thus described my said improveare so elongated as to provide for ample adment, as of my invention I claim 10 justability of rods. A slotted tie-rod, as B, in combination with Any suitable form of slotted tie-rod can be transverse slotted rails. 5 used, the essence of the invention being the ARTHUR J. MOXHAM.

scope of the adj ustability afforded by the Witnesses: elongated slot in the web of the rail to the ALFRED S. BROWN,

tie-rod used. FRANCIS P. REILLY. 

